Allen Toussaint experienced a late-career revival sparked, ironically enough, by the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. He had to leave his hometown New Orleans after the hurricane, relocating ...continue...

Tracks: Exactly Like You; I Like It Like That; You Know You Know; Dilemma; AP Touro; What Goes Around Comes Around; Do It Again; Why Your Feet Hurt; Shrimp and Gumbo; Feelin' Free; Let's Go Get 'Em
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Rebirth Brass Band

Stanton Moore is a New Orleans style drummer raised in Metairie, Louisiana. Most widely known as a founding member of Galactic, Moore has also pursued...continue...
On EMPHASIS! (ON PARENTHESIS) drummer Stanton Moore returns with the trio that raised such a beautiful ruckus on 2006's III. Keyboardist Robert Walter and guitarist Will Bernard are still full of enou...continue...

It's a mark of the man's musical influence that the title track to this concise collection of vintage Professor Longhair compositions became the theme song to New Orleans' Mardi Gras celebration. The ...continue...

Tracks: Busting Loose, (I Feel Like); Do Whatcha Wanna; New Orleans Music; Carnival Time; Feel Like Funkin' It Up; Let's Do It Again; Cassanova; All Blues; I Ate up the Apple Tree; Just the Two of Us; Tornan...
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Rebirth Brass Band

Tracks: Who Took the Happiness Out?; Mardi Gras in New Orleans; It Ain't What You Think; Do It Fluid / Do It Again; Flintstones Meet the President, The (Meets the Dirty Dozen); Night Train; Blue Monk / Storm...
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The Dirty Dozen Brass Band

Not at the same level as their debut (My Feet Can't Fail Me Now), the second outing by the Dirty Dozen Brass Band (taken from a couple sets performed at the 1985 Montreux Jazz Festival), Live: Mardi G...continue...

New Orleans brass band music is infectious, good-time music, even when it's played at funerals. Rebirth Brass Band keeps the tradition alive and up-to-date on We Come to Party. One might wonder whethe...continue...

Tracks: New Orleans Second Line '88; Mardi Gras in New Orleans; They All Asked for You; New Second Line; Mardi Gras in New Orleans; Mardi Gras Time; Mardi Gras in New Orleans; New Second Line '89
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Olympia Brass Band

Another recent release by the fine contemporary marching ensemble The Rebirth Brass Band. This one has a little more funk and R&B influence, but still has plenty of undiluted, classic New Orleans numb...continue...